WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 31, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:00am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from chilly Tannersvillle Ms. T tweet tweet!
	♥ 9:01am Handy Haversack: Happy rainy Old Year Day to Trouble and all the Troubled.
	♥ 9:01am Trouble: good morning last day of 2020! happy moving forward day!
	9:03am Phillippe Bastille: Hey hey, good morning everyone!
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Brisbane, Australia! Good morning, Trouble and revelers!
	9:05am YETI BOB: Good morning Trouble, Handy, PB, Bop + Ken! Nice to be here with you all.
	♥ 9:05am melinda: Morning Trouble and friends!
	♥ 9:05am alanr: Music for a rainy morning (for us "live" listeners in the WFMU vicinity). Happy to spend it with you....again.
	9:09am Sylvia (France-NYC): Hi Trouble, and radio friends Happy Old Year's Day, Handy!
	9:09am YETI BOB: this Mike Cooper record is fantastic
	9:10am upstatesean: Hey trouble, everyone
	9:10am TDK60: Bonjour DJ Trouble. Love to the difficult olde year.
	♥ 9:10am Handy Haversack: Et à toi aussi, Sylvia!
	9:12am Sylvia (France-NYC): merci Handy !
	9:12am YETI BOB: was just listening to "Trout Steel" yesterday
	9:12am Philippe bastille: Hey Handy, the buffleheads checked in here this morning
	9:12am Listener Bop Monroe: howdy all! and crickets. that painting sums up this past year. i dig the finger!
	9:12am Philippe bastille: Good morning YB, KFHP, Sylvia!
	♥ 9:14am Brian in UK: Hello Trouble & folks.
	♥ 9:15am Baja Joe: Good morning. Lovely sounds.
	9:15am Sylvia (France-NYC): Morning Phillippe! Brian in UK!
	9:15am TDK60: Didn't know Bridget Mae Power had journeyed to Jersey City for the radio.
	♥ 9:16am Handy Haversack: Nice, Phillippe!
	9:16am Kpx: I understand that this is the place for the truly troubled to be, the cuckoo, the crazy, the nuts, the squirrely, the flipped, the truly insane. because if so is there a vacancy,
	9:16am Dances with Moomins: Good morning Trouble and the world. May the year ahead be much more hopeful for all of us. May we indeed, meet again.
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: had to look it up. buffleheads. cool! kpx one of us, one of us!
	♥ 9:17am Brian in UK: Sylvia, hope you are keeping well.
	♥ 9:18am Brian in UK: We had a modest fall of snow and three frosty nights.
	♥ 9:19am Trouble: good morning and welcome all! love to you and family in finland @danceswith...
	9:21am TDK60: "Hiya" Brian of the Shire. Bonjour Sylvia; Kpx take an easy chair.
	♥ 9:21am Irene Trudel: Another stellar, soothing set to start the day, Trouble. Best way to banish 2020.
	♥ 9:22am Brian in UK: TDK60 are you nogged out?
	♥ 9:23am Trouble: hola@irene!
	9:23am Dances with Moomins: Moi Ms. T! Thanks. All well, our love in return. Best for year ahead. Beautiful music, hauntingly so. cheers!
	9:25am TDK60: Just got more eggnog cartons last night, Brian. I'm set.
	9:25am Sylvia (France-NYC): @Brian in UK hanging in there, hope you're doing ok as well Hello @TDK60 I made eggnog after Mary's show! Hello @Irene!
	9:25am YETI BOB: we've been playing this Brandee Younger record a lot too
	♥ 9:26am Strandlund: I love the music you pick for your show, Trouble...My cats love the birds!! Happy New Year!!
	♥ 9:26am Webhamster Henry: Hi Trouble! Where's Alice Coltrane?
	♥ 9:27am Passaic River Blues: So good!
	9:27am Christopher Clabbers: day off and doing dishes in the mellow rain. Thank you for the abundance of wonderful music all year! 😺
	♥ 9:27am StringOFperils: Ahhh....some morning serenity. Just couldn't do Death Valley 69 a while ago. Not today Lydia and Thurston. It's been a dark time. Need to spend more time in the light.
	9:27am TDK60: Sylvia, I promise I'll try to make a nog someday soon. I'm so lazy this week.
	♥ 9:28am Trouble: can't play alice every week @ webmasterhenry
	9:29am YETI BOB: @StringOfPerils: For me there's "Day music" and "Night music". I'm a fan of Thurston and Lydia, but not in the morning (or should I say, "Not before Lunch" ?)
	♥ 9:29am Webhamster Henry: @Trouble oh well - this'll have to do.
	9:29am Faye: <3 perfect rainy morning feeling
	9:29am kpx: this sounds like the kind of smooth docile music that the troubled need to hear to calm their frayed frazzled nerves. aaahhhh!
	9:29am YETI BOB: kpx: this whole album is tracks that Dezron and Brandee live-streamed from home as their "Quarantine Brunch" concerts.
	9:30am YETI BOB: (and one of my favorite records of 2020, for sure)
	9:31am Santos L Halper: Fabulous set Trouble, that Mike Cooper esp, thanks!
	9:32am Buddha of Suburbia: Great tunes!
	9:32am Sarah: Yay hello Trouble
	9:33am YETI BOB: Yes - a lot of beautiful music and art came out of this mess of a year
	♥ 9:34am StringOFperils: Good morning, Trouble...and Yeti Bob, and everybody. May this last day of the year be kind to you all.
	9:35am Buddha of Suburbia: Thank you StringOFperils, same to you.
	9:35am YETI BOB: Trouble - I like a lot of shows on WFMU but nobody consistently plays the music I want to hear like you do. Sincere thanks.
	9:38am Slaboch: Thanks so much for all the extra effort of doing shows from home this year Trouble. FMU has never meant more to us and can't imagine going through this year without all of you! xox
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: nice of you to say @slaboch! every morning it's a new panic moment doing radio from home, wonder when i will calm down...
	9:39am TDK60: You are healin' up fine, Trouble? We can't see you panic because it's the radio.
	♥ 9:41am Trouble: thank you @YETI BOB...
	♥ 9:42am Trouble: @tdk my wrist is getting better every day. tried to drive this week: sooooo not there yet. i suppose this is a good time to go nowhere
	♥ 9:46am p/b: GM world from a soggy bklyn, love it all and your little dog too. 2021 from the heart in/out thank you FMUniverse
	9:49am Buddha of Suburbia: I like this tune.
	♥ 9:51am Ike: Hi, sounds good! Yesssss @Handy and @Sylvia, I love that we're trying to spread "Old Year's Day" as a name for the 31st, as Mary Wing overheard someone saying. All credit to Grenada, whether it really came from there or not!
	9:55am TDK60: I recall that yesterday, Ike. Olde Day as in Auld Lang Syne? (Hey, it was only this year I learned that Dec 26 is Day of the Wren, in addition to Boxing Day.)
	9:57am Crei6hton: Enjoy your day everyone and be safe. Cheers.
	9:58am TDK60: Don't drynk then drive! Let the sober Elf drive. And wear your mathk.
	♥ 10:01am Trouble: i hope you are all staying home to ring in the new year with dave the spazz!
	10:02am Listener Gregory: If there are almost no New Years Eve parties this year, it will be the best New Years Eve ever!
	10:03am thedunkel: Happy New year Trouble! Happy New year all!
	10:07am DL in LA: Trouble, impressed and glad you can type, it seems, even given your wrist!
	10:10am TDK60: Trouble, You have the better idea; stay home instead of driving. Maybe go on a neighborhood walk? {mathked up, of course.}
	♥ 10:10am Trouble: @DL in LA: it's a new experience! using my left hand to mouse is the pits.
	♥ 10:12am Trouble: today's artwork is on display at gold/scopophilia gallery in Montclair NJ. check it!
	♥ 10:12am p/b: Trouble, so sorry about your wrist, that totally sucks. I'm sending you all the healing vibes BUT I'd also gently suggest you to ask a real doctor if physical therapy makes sense for you, and if it does I urge you to find a good PT place like Spear and then do all the exercises, no matter how dumb they feel. PT saved me from surgery twice, once with a blown out knee and once with a broken ankle. Here's to healing and dealing / love you!
	10:14am still b/p: Nice stealth Summer Place.
	♥ 10:18am Trouble: thanks p/b. I know it will be doing PT soon enough, I am still in a cast like brace. My surgeon has already talked about it. I am a big fan of PT, want to repair my right hand to it's full working abilities, no worries there!
	♥ 10:20am Andrea: SILLY GAMES! Unforgettable singing/scenes from "Lovers Rock" thank you.
	♥ 10:22am Trouble: @andrea i loved that McQueen used that song in 2 versions in 'Lovers Rock', soooo smart
	♥ 10:23am p/b: Janet Kay! What a voice
	10:24am Otto: Yea, Trouble!!!!
	♥ 10:25am Andrea: silly games: yes... and the song building up in the kitchen first to get it in our heads (and it was enjoyable!)
	♥ 10:25am Matt Fiveash: Trouble, thanx for hipping me to Lovers Rock. I watched it twice! What a film.
	♥ 10:27am Trouble: hey matt! good to hear from you!
	♥ 10:28am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 10:29am Jason from Houston: Best version.
	10:30am Andres: What Jason said!
	♥ 10:33am Trouble: yes , surely better than the version i did at the hoof and mouth orchestra a million years ago
	10:34am Mike W: here we are at the end of all things (that we have known thus far)
	♥ 10:35am Trouble: but isn't that every day@mike W?
	10:38am Mike W: @Trouble today is the first This Is the Modern World of the rest of your life!
	10:38am Mike W: and mine thanku, as always, DJ
	♥ 10:41am Trouble: i hadn't actually thought about it until you wrote it out: it is sort of like a giant cliff and everything that has happened is behind us and infinity looms in front. sort of scary if you think of it that way, but it would be a great new yorker cartoon image
	♥ 10:45am Handy Haversack: I taught at South Shore High School!
	10:47am sphere: @ Trouble - I have seen similar diagrams in books on relativity. And hello.
	♥ 10:47am Trouble: hands in the air to handy!
	10:48am Dances with Moomins: Get well soon Trouble. Buffalo gals, now we're goin back for fun
	10:48am Mike W: there are probably a number of random aphorisms out there that would take on added weight the more you think into them semi-related, have you ever stared at the word “the” for too long? it’s absurd, makes no sense
	10:49am sphere: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:49am Listener Gregory: Why are buffalo people always excluded? How long must they stay on the outside looking in?
	10:50am Mike W: anyway it does speak to the arbitrariness of a new year appearing. the sum that is one year isn’t arbitrary, just the sticky note we drop into the flow because unbroken time is much scarier
	♥ 10:51am Handy Haversack: Hypersurface of the Present feels pretty spot on, sphere. And hello!
	10:51am Dances with Moomins: They go outside so they can come in again.
	10:52am sphere: @ Handy: :)
	10:53am Mike W: like all animals we strive to exert some control over the environment around us, or like Townes says, turning around is to become confusion
	♥ 10:53am Jason from Houston: ꒰｡•‿•｡꒱
	10:54am Listener Gregory: I have yet to see a buffalo gal inside. Don't even ask about the buffalo guys.
	♥ 10:56am StringOFperils: Only Buffalo wings go around the inside.
	♥ 10:56am Planet Tyler: Doggo doesnt like this one
	10:58am Mike W: sometimes you see an artist-and-track name unfurl a couple seconds before the song actually starts, and so cheers to you 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma for giving me a brief moment of free-floating wonderment kinda wicked song it is, too! slippery but lazy about it
	♥ 11:00am Bluesky: Angel Bat Dawid! Thanks for the introduction! Just went ahead and bought one of her LPs on bandcamp. And Oumou Sangare is medicinal. Loving your set, Trouble, as usual.
	♥ 11:00am Handy Haversack: Trouble's not away anymore!
	11:01am one hit: one hour to "new year's Eve" TROUBLE :P good music, kids are playing w fish and watching us get drunk and love dj
	11:01am Listener Gregory: We should call on Lady Day and John Coltrane. Lord knows we need them now.
	♥ 11:01am Trouble: good morning @bluesky, hope you are both well!!
	♥ 11:02am Ike: @Mike W, cheers for the "the" and "sticky note drop[ped] into the flow", good stuff.
	11:05am Cumbia Phil: Missed ya trouble! Nice to catch your show again
	♥ 11:07am Trouble: gracias @cumbia phil!
	11:11am Mike W: what’s up @Ike
	11:13am Mike W: nevertheless this will have been my final wake and bake of the calendar year, and i do not mean the radio program
	♥ 11:13am p/b: Bring that horn - who is that?
	11:14am TDK60: Skankyjazz breakfast.
	11:15am YETI BOB: @MikeW: Right there with ya
	11:17am Sarah: Truly awesome music
	♥ 11:17am Trouble: merci@sarah!
	11:17am Mike W: what’s up @YETI BOB and all heads and Troublemakers everywhere
	11:19am kpx: @Trouble: Sending telepathic thoughts of 🕉️'s to calm your troubled mind. I would also like to express my gratitude for the time that you take each week to create good vibrations that contributes to the wave of positive effect unto those that receive it.
	11:19am The Butterman: Just spoke on the phone to my former student/army m.p., in Korea. Apparently they already had New Years already. What the heck is going on? How could they have New Years already?
	11:19am Dances with Moomins: Fireworks are legal to set off between 6pm and 6am each Dec. 31st. Now 6:18 ...folks are starting the celebrations in SW Finland cool misty evening tonight.
	♥ 11:20am Trouble: thank you for being here@kpx.
	♥ 11:21am Trouble: further challenging the specious america first claim@thebutterman
	11:22am Carmichael: Heya Trubb and all fellow can't-waiters.
	♥ 11:24am Trouble: new year's day for me is jan 20 this year
	11:24am TDK60: Butterman, I once made a prank call to an operator (remember them?) in Montana, to say it was the next year here (NJ/NY) and still the olde year there! (I was a teen.)
	11:26am Mike W: yeah, all these war-criminal presidents have utterly failed to bring America First into the new year — ever! not once! off with their heads!
	♥ 11:27am Handy Haversack: If there were resources to extract, I'm sure we'd invade time, too.
	11:28am kpx: wasn't quite sure if I had to pluralize the ohm symbol?. right or wrong, it was done.
	11:28am Carmichael: Ha ha, that's better than the 1st. My personal new year's eve is the 29th, which marks 20 years of government service and a step closer to retirement.
	11:29am Listener Gregory: @kpx, think you were right, but need to carefully consider the apostrophe.
	11:30am The Butterman: TDK! You coulda made millions with that shtick.
	11:31am The Butterman: Lonnie! I’m feelin it!
	11:33am still b/p: Was looking last night at Holley profile from a couple years ago when he was Bandcamp artist of the week. daily.bandcamp.com...
	11:34am kpx: @L Gregory: Thx
	11:36am JP From KC: Greetings, all! Nice to be tuning in live for a change.
	♥ 11:37am Trouble: welcome aboard@jp!
	11:37am TDK60: Oh, did someone misuse an apostrophe above? Oh my! 2020, ya know.
	11:39am YETI BOB: @kpx: That's the Om symbol, the Ohm symbol is Ω
	♥ 11:40am Ken From Hyde Park: I am interested in procuring a quantity of celebratory fireworks for January 20.
	♥ 11:40am Handy Haversack: <sparks>And I've got angstrom my pants!</sparks>
	11:41am still b/p: Either way, Yeti Bob, there's no place like it for the holidays.
	11:42am Carmichael: Skeletal umbilical.
	11:43am YETI BOB: ångström (I love Unicode)
	♥ 11:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Om would be preferable, right? Less resistance.
	11:44am kpx: May the apostles of apostrophes send their knowledge upon thee.
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: The matter is charged, Ken.
	11:45am Dances with Moomins: More Om, less Ohms.... you can resist the resistance!
	11:46am Listener Gregory: I mistakenly used to chant "Ohm." My guru was shocked.
	11:46am TDK60: Hoo.
	♥ 11:46am Trouble: you do realize this is dangerous dad joke territory you all are dipping into?
	11:47am YETI BOB: I know, I just can't resist
	♥ 11:47am Handy Haversack: I'm going to go make lunch and will likely be away from the keyboard -- but always listening, Trouble. Thanks for all! So glad to have you back at the left-handed mice controls! Happiest of New Year wishes to you. And to all the Troubled. May the days ahead be full of Trouble and much less troubled.
	11:48am kpx: @Yeti Bob: I got the right symbol, just the wrong word. that was the word my speech to text provided.
	♥ 11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe we should dial it back. The more resistance we add, the more things will be heating up.
	11:49am northguineahills: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:49am Trouble: thanks for all your good vibes @handy! big ups to everyone who listens and supports independent radio!
	11:50am Jeffrey Davison: Belated greetings, Trouble and all! I was listening while cooking. Thanks for all the great music...
	11:50am YETI BOB: @kpx: yeah, that's a nice Om emoji (omoji?)
	11:51am TDK60: Gracias for Sounds, Trouble. Happy Feast of the Calendar & Diary Industry Success.
	11:52am Peter: Happy new year Trouble, thanks for the tunes 🍻
	♥ 11:52am Trouble: bonjour@jeffrey! sounds delicious!
	♥ 11:53am Trouble: happy happy peeps! i am so fortunate to be here with your every thursday. Cheers to the future!!
	11:54am YETI BOB: Look to the future now It's only just begun
	11:54am prudy: Happy New Year all...Trouble, thanks for helping us get through this painful year along with the skeleton crew at WFMU...cheers..
	11:55am ig: listened this morning when waiting for ASP and was so delighted. will def. be listening again <3
	11:55am sphere: take care folks. face forward to the future. :)
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: thanks and welcome aboard@ig!
	11:56am kpx: @Yeti Bob: Omohmji .
	11:57am ratso: nice vibes today, trouble. Thanks for helping wrap up this year and put a bow on it.
	11:57am egould310: Junior Murvin with a voice as hiiiigh as a rooftop.
	11:57am Andres: Wonderful show today, Trouble! Thank you! All the best to all you peoples!
	11:57am northguineahills: ok, my car is missing, from where I parked it. It's a standard transmission, so, I don't know why someone would break in and take it... (2020 did it again!)
	11:57am still b/p: Towed maybe, ngh?
	♥ 11:58am Irene Trudel: Happy New Year, Trouble! Thanks for all the great music in 2020, the year's one saving grace.
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	11:58am Mark Williams: @Trouble - check out "Bingo Kid" sometime. Another instrumental version of Police & Thieves, but with this really lovely guitar solo over the top.
	11:58am northguineahills: The hotel doesn't tow, unless, I accidentally parked in a handi spot, as I got a call about an interview as parked two days ago, I may have been distracted....
	♥ 11:59am Jason from Houston: Love y'all. Stay safe and sweet.
	♥ 11:59am alanr: Applause!
	11:59am still b/p: I called health.gov to straighten something out and there was NO wait/hold time! The 2020 to 2021 tide is turning already!
	♥ 11:59am Andrea: thank you!!!!! better year to all.
	12:00pm still b/p: Beautiful show. Thank you.
	♥ 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Hope your car turns up, ngh.
	12:00pm kpx: @NGH: Reprocess ?
	12:00pm Listener Gregory: Thanks for a relaxing show, Trouble. Just like 2020!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 31, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Format	New	Approx. start time
mary lattimore	don't look "don't look" by "mary lattimore"	silver ladders		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
mike cooper	the drowned world ( jalan batu after rain)	playing with water		*	0:07:43 (Pop-up)
bridget mae power	the two worlds live on WFMU				0:13:17 (Pop-up)
sarah davachi	gold upon white "gold upon white" by "sarah davachi"	cantus, descant			0:17:01 (Pop-up)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger	you make me feel brand new	force majeure		*	0:23:22 (Pop-up)

ann o'aro with teddy doris, bino ware	longoz	buda musique		*	0:32:20 (Pop-up)
Khruangbin/kelly doyle	DRM "DRM" by "Khruangbin/kelly doyle"	Khruangbin: Late Night Tales		*	0:36:57 (Pop-up)
siete catorce	lora cabeza amarilla	A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean v/a			0:39:07 (Pop-up)
common	say peace ft Black thought		Single	*	0:45:55 (Pop-up)
Alexander Henry	please be true "please be true" by "Alexander Henry"	When Rhythm Was King (V/A)			0:49:13 (Pop-up)
basil daley	hold me baby "hold me baby" by "basil daley"	When Rhythm Was King (V/A)			0:51:56 (Pop-up)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Inspiration Information	Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)		*	0:54:16 (Pop-up)
shamaali & killer	hoobeya "hoobeya" by "shamaali & killer"	Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991)		*	0:58:14 (Pop-up)

love joys	let me rock you now "let me rock you now" by "love joys"	lovers rock			1:07:16 (Pop-up)
angel bat dawid	Transition East "Transition East" by "angel bat dawid"	transition east			1:15:22 (Pop-up)
janet kay	silly games "silly games" by "janet kay"	janet kay: the definitive hits collection 1977-1984			1:18:39 (Pop-up)
79.5	wavvy "wavvy" by "79.5"	predictions			1:22:17 (Pop-up)
Quantic y Los Miticos del Ritmo	hotline bling	tru thoughts covers 3		*	1:27:25 (Pop-up)
the precisions	you're the best (that ever did it)	Beg Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box Of '60s Soul (v/a)			1:30:12 (Pop-up)
alpha	can't get over you "can't get over you" by "alpha"	this is lovers rock v/a			1:33:06 (Pop-up)
Oumou Sangaré	sukunyali "sukunyali" by "Oumou Sangaré"	africa rising:essential mindblowing summer grooves v/a			1:37:54 (Pop-up)
Malcolm Mclaren	buffalo gals "buffalo gals" by "Malcolm Mclaren"	duck rock			1:44:47 (Pop-up)
St Panther	B.O.M.B. "B.O.M.B." by "St Panther"	these days			1:48:04 (Pop-up)
Park Hye Jin & Nosaj Thing	CLOUDS	CLOUDS	Single	*	1:51:25 (Pop-up)
19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma	kurmja deja	19 years before the beginning			1:54:35 (Pop-up)
pieces of a man	Lady Day And John Coltrane feat amp fiddler	tru thoughts covers 3 v/a		*	1:58:50 (Pop-up)

sun ra	new horizons "new horizons" by "sun ra"	A Space Odyssey: From Birmingham to the Big Apple - the Quest Begins v/a			2:06:00 (Pop-up)
nubya garcia	source (radio edit) "source (radio edit)" by "nubya garcia"	source			2:08:48 (Pop-up)
yoshiko sai	theme "theme" by "yoshiko sai"	stowaway			2:14:57 (Pop-up)
lonnie holley	i move forward (live)			*	2:25:11 (Pop-up)
fantastic something	if she doesn't smile	sinshine pop 99			2:31:59 (Pop-up)
thibault	see the world "see the world" by "thibault"	or not thibault			2:35:08 (Pop-up)

Toro Y Moi feat The Mattson 2	Ordinary Guy (Afro-Filipino)		Single		2:40:47 (Pop-up)
the heptones	only sixteen "only sixteen" by "the heptones"	sweet talking			2:44:20 (Pop-up)
The Revolutionaries	The Conqueror	aggrovators meets the revolutionaries at channel 1 studio			2:47:17 (Pop-up)
the now generation	People Make the World Go Round	jamaica funk v/a			2:51:01 (Pop-up)
the upsetters	dub grumbling "dub grumbling" by "the upsetters"		7"		2:54:09 (Pop-up)

oui ennui	refresh "refresh" by "oui ennui"	democide			2:58:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from chilly Tannersvillle Ms. T tweet tweet!
	♥ 9:01am Handy Haversack: Happy rainy Old Year Day to Trouble and all the Troubled.
	♥ 9:01am Trouble: good morning last day of 2020! happy moving forward day!
	9:03am Phillippe Bastille: Hey hey, good morning everyone!
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Brisbane, Australia! Good morning, Trouble and revelers!
	9:05am YETI BOB: Good morning Trouble, Handy, PB, Bop + Ken! Nice to be here with you all.
	♥ 9:05am melinda: Morning Trouble and friends!
	♥ 9:05am alanr: Music for a rainy morning (for us "live" listeners in the WFMU vicinity). Happy to spend it with you....again.
	9:09am Sylvia (France-NYC): Hi Trouble, and radio friends Happy Old Year's Day, Handy!
	9:09am YETI BOB: this Mike Cooper record is fantastic
	9:10am upstatesean: Hey trouble, everyone
	9:10am TDK60: Bonjour DJ Trouble. Love to the difficult olde year.
	♥ 9:10am Handy Haversack: Et à toi aussi, Sylvia!
	9:12am Sylvia (France-NYC): merci Handy !
	9:12am YETI BOB: was just listening to "Trout Steel" yesterday
	9:12am Philippe bastille: Hey Handy, the buffleheads checked in here this morning
	9:12am Listener Bop Monroe: howdy all! and crickets. that painting sums up this past year. i dig the finger!
	9:12am Philippe bastille: Good morning YB, KFHP, Sylvia!
	♥ 9:14am Brian in UK: Hello Trouble & folks.
	♥ 9:15am Baja Joe: Good morning. Lovely sounds.
	9:15am Sylvia (France-NYC): Morning Phillippe! Brian in UK!
	9:15am TDK60: Didn't know Bridget Mae Power had journeyed to Jersey City for the radio.
	♥ 9:16am Handy Haversack: Nice, Phillippe!
	9:16am Kpx: I understand that this is the place for the truly troubled to be, the cuckoo, the crazy, the nuts, the squirrely, the flipped, the truly insane. because if so is there a vacancy,
	9:16am Dances with Moomins: Good morning Trouble and the world. May the year ahead be much more hopeful for all of us. May we indeed, meet again.
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: had to look it up. buffleheads. cool! kpx one of us, one of us!
	♥ 9:17am Brian in UK: Sylvia, hope you are keeping well.
	♥ 9:18am Brian in UK: We had a modest fall of snow and three frosty nights.
	♥ 9:19am Trouble: good morning and welcome all! love to you and family in finland @danceswith...
	9:21am TDK60: "Hiya" Brian of the Shire. Bonjour Sylvia; Kpx take an easy chair.
	♥ 9:21am Irene Trudel: Another stellar, soothing set to start the day, Trouble. Best way to banish 2020.
	♥ 9:22am Brian in UK: TDK60 are you nogged out?
	♥ 9:23am Trouble: hola@irene!
	9:23am Dances with Moomins: Moi Ms. T! Thanks. All well, our love in return. Best for year ahead. Beautiful music, hauntingly so. cheers!
	9:25am TDK60: Just got more eggnog cartons last night, Brian. I'm set.
	9:25am Sylvia (France-NYC): @Brian in UK hanging in there, hope you're doing ok as well Hello @TDK60 I made eggnog after Mary's show! Hello @Irene!
	9:25am YETI BOB: we've been playing this Brandee Younger record a lot too
	♥ 9:26am Strandlund: I love the music you pick for your show, Trouble...My cats love the birds!! Happy New Year!!
	♥ 9:26am Webhamster Henry: Hi Trouble! Where's Alice Coltrane?
	♥ 9:27am Passaic River Blues: So good!
	9:27am Christopher Clabbers: day off and doing dishes in the mellow rain. Thank you for the abundance of wonderful music all year! 😺
	♥ 9:27am StringOFperils: Ahhh....some morning serenity. Just couldn't do Death Valley 69 a while ago. Not today Lydia and Thurston. It's been a dark time. Need to spend more time in the light.
	9:27am TDK60: Sylvia, I promise I'll try to make a nog someday soon. I'm so lazy this week.
	♥ 9:28am Trouble: can't play alice every week @ webmasterhenry
	9:29am YETI BOB: @StringOfPerils: For me there's "Day music" and "Night music". I'm a fan of Thurston and Lydia, but not in the morning (or should I say, "Not before Lunch" ?)
	♥ 9:29am Webhamster Henry: @Trouble oh well - this'll have to do.
	9:29am Faye: <3 perfect rainy morning feeling
	9:29am kpx: this sounds like the kind of smooth docile music that the troubled need to hear to calm their frayed frazzled nerves. aaahhhh!
	9:29am YETI BOB: kpx: this whole album is tracks that Dezron and Brandee live-streamed from home as their "Quarantine Brunch" concerts.
	9:30am YETI BOB: (and one of my favorite records of 2020, for sure)
	9:31am Santos L Halper: Fabulous set Trouble, that Mike Cooper esp, thanks!
	9:32am Buddha of Suburbia: Great tunes!
	9:32am Sarah: Yay hello Trouble
	9:33am YETI BOB: Yes - a lot of beautiful music and art came out of this mess of a year
	♥ 9:34am StringOFperils: Good morning, Trouble...and Yeti Bob, and everybody. May this last day of the year be kind to you all.
	9:35am Buddha of Suburbia: Thank you StringOFperils, same to you.
	9:35am YETI BOB: Trouble - I like a lot of shows on WFMU but nobody consistently plays the music I want to hear like you do. Sincere thanks.
	9:38am Slaboch: Thanks so much for all the extra effort of doing shows from home this year Trouble. FMU has never meant more to us and can't imagine going through this year without all of you! xox
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: nice of you to say @slaboch! every morning it's a new panic moment doing radio from home, wonder when i will calm down...
	9:39am TDK60: You are healin' up fine, Trouble? We can't see you panic because it's the radio.
	♥ 9:41am Trouble: thank you @YETI BOB...
	♥ 9:42am Trouble: @tdk my wrist is getting better every day. tried to drive this week: sooooo not there yet. i suppose this is a good time to go nowhere
	♥ 9:46am p/b: GM world from a soggy bklyn, love it all and your little dog too. 2021 from the heart in/out thank you FMUniverse
	9:49am Buddha of Suburbia: I like this tune.
	♥ 9:51am Ike: Hi, sounds good! Yesssss @Handy and @Sylvia, I love that we're trying to spread "Old Year's Day" as a name for the 31st, as Mary Wing overheard someone saying. All credit to Grenada, whether it really came from there or not!
	9:55am TDK60: I recall that yesterday, Ike. Olde Day as in Auld Lang Syne? (Hey, it was only this year I learned that Dec 26 is Day of the Wren, in addition to Boxing Day.)
	9:57am Crei6hton: Enjoy your day everyone and be safe. Cheers.
	9:58am TDK60: Don't drynk then drive! Let the sober Elf drive. And wear your mathk.
	♥ 10:01am Trouble: i hope you are all staying home to ring in the new year with dave the spazz!
	10:02am Listener Gregory: If there are almost no New Years Eve parties this year, it will be the best New Years Eve ever!
	10:03am thedunkel: Happy New year Trouble! Happy New year all!
	10:07am DL in LA: Trouble, impressed and glad you can type, it seems, even given your wrist!
	10:10am TDK60: Trouble, You have the better idea; stay home instead of driving. Maybe go on a neighborhood walk? {mathked up, of course.}
	♥ 10:10am Trouble: @DL in LA: it's a new experience! using my left hand to mouse is the pits.
	♥ 10:12am Trouble: today's artwork is on display at gold/scopophilia gallery in Montclair NJ. check it!
	♥ 10:12am p/b: Trouble, so sorry about your wrist, that totally sucks. I'm sending you all the healing vibes BUT I'd also gently suggest you to ask a real doctor if physical therapy makes sense for you, and if it does I urge you to find a good PT place like Spear and then do all the exercises, no matter how dumb they feel. PT saved me from surgery twice, once with a blown out knee and once with a broken ankle. Here's to healing and dealing / love you!
	10:14am still b/p: Nice stealth Summer Place.
	♥ 10:18am Trouble: thanks p/b. I know it will be doing PT soon enough, I am still in a cast like brace. My surgeon has already talked about it. I am a big fan of PT, want to repair my right hand to it's full working abilities, no worries there!
	♥ 10:20am Andrea: SILLY GAMES! Unforgettable singing/scenes from "Lovers Rock" thank you.
	♥ 10:22am Trouble: @andrea i loved that McQueen used that song in 2 versions in 'Lovers Rock', soooo smart
	♥ 10:23am p/b: Janet Kay! What a voice
	10:24am Otto: Yea, Trouble!!!!
	♥ 10:25am Andrea: silly games: yes... and the song building up in the kitchen first to get it in our heads (and it was enjoyable!)
	♥ 10:25am Matt Fiveash: Trouble, thanx for hipping me to Lovers Rock. I watched it twice! What a film.
	♥ 10:27am Trouble: hey matt! good to hear from you!
	♥ 10:28am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 10:29am Jason from Houston: Best version.
	10:30am Andres: What Jason said!
	♥ 10:33am Trouble: yes , surely better than the version i did at the hoof and mouth orchestra a million years ago
	10:34am Mike W: here we are at the end of all things (that we have known thus far)
	♥ 10:35am Trouble: but isn't that every day@mike W?
	10:38am Mike W: @Trouble today is the first This Is the Modern World of the rest of your life!
	10:38am Mike W: and mine thanku, as always, DJ
	♥ 10:41am Trouble: i hadn't actually thought about it until you wrote it out: it is sort of like a giant cliff and everything that has happened is behind us and infinity looms in front. sort of scary if you think of it that way, but it would be a great new yorker cartoon image
	♥ 10:45am Handy Haversack: I taught at South Shore High School!
	10:47am sphere: @ Trouble - I have seen similar diagrams in books on relativity. And hello.
	♥ 10:47am Trouble: hands in the air to handy!
	10:48am Dances with Moomins: Get well soon Trouble. Buffalo gals, now we're goin back for fun
	10:48am Mike W: there are probably a number of random aphorisms out there that would take on added weight the more you think into them semi-related, have you ever stared at the word “the” for too long? it’s absurd, makes no sense
	10:49am sphere: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:49am Listener Gregory: Why are buffalo people always excluded? How long must they stay on the outside looking in?
	10:50am Mike W: anyway it does speak to the arbitrariness of a new year appearing. the sum that is one year isn’t arbitrary, just the sticky note we drop into the flow because unbroken time is much scarier
	♥ 10:51am Handy Haversack: Hypersurface of the Present feels pretty spot on, sphere. And hello!
	10:51am Dances with Moomins: They go outside so they can come in again.
	10:52am sphere: @ Handy: :)
	10:53am Mike W: like all animals we strive to exert some control over the environment around us, or like Townes says, turning around is to become confusion
	♥ 10:53am Jason from Houston: ꒰｡•‿•｡꒱
	10:54am Listener Gregory: I have yet to see a buffalo gal inside. Don't even ask about the buffalo guys.
	♥ 10:56am StringOFperils: Only Buffalo wings go around the inside.
	♥ 10:56am Planet Tyler: Doggo doesnt like this one
	10:58am Mike W: sometimes you see an artist-and-track name unfurl a couple seconds before the song actually starts, and so cheers to you 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma for giving me a brief moment of free-floating wonderment kinda wicked song it is, too! slippery but lazy about it
	♥ 11:00am Bluesky: Angel Bat Dawid! Thanks for the introduction! Just went ahead and bought one of her LPs on bandcamp. And Oumou Sangare is medicinal. Loving your set, Trouble, as usual.
	♥ 11:00am Handy Haversack: Trouble's not away anymore!
	11:01am one hit: one hour to "new year's Eve" TROUBLE :P good music, kids are playing w fish and watching us get drunk and love dj
	11:01am Listener Gregory: We should call on Lady Day and John Coltrane. Lord knows we need them now.
	♥ 11:01am Trouble: good morning @bluesky, hope you are both well!!
	♥ 11:02am Ike: @Mike W, cheers for the "the" and "sticky note drop[ped] into the flow", good stuff.
	11:05am Cumbia Phil: Missed ya trouble! Nice to catch your show again
	♥ 11:07am Trouble: gracias @cumbia phil!
	11:11am Mike W: what’s up @Ike
	11:13am Mike W: nevertheless this will have been my final wake and bake of the calendar year, and i do not mean the radio program
	♥ 11:13am p/b: Bring that horn - who is that?
	11:14am TDK60: Skankyjazz breakfast.
	11:15am YETI BOB: @MikeW: Right there with ya
	11:17am Sarah: Truly awesome music
	♥ 11:17am Trouble: merci@sarah!
	11:17am Mike W: what’s up @YETI BOB and all heads and Troublemakers everywhere
	11:19am kpx: @Trouble: Sending telepathic thoughts of 🕉️'s to calm your troubled mind. I would also like to express my gratitude for the time that you take each week to create good vibrations that contributes to the wave of positive effect unto those that receive it.
	11:19am The Butterman: Just spoke on the phone to my former student/army m.p., in Korea. Apparently they already had New Years already. What the heck is going on? How could they have New Years already?
	11:19am Dances with Moomins: Fireworks are legal to set off between 6pm and 6am each Dec. 31st. Now 6:18 ...folks are starting the celebrations in SW Finland cool misty evening tonight.
	♥ 11:20am Trouble: thank you for being here@kpx.
	♥ 11:21am Trouble: further challenging the specious america first claim@thebutterman
	11:22am Carmichael: Heya Trubb and all fellow can't-waiters.
	♥ 11:24am Trouble: new year's day for me is jan 20 this year
	11:24am TDK60: Butterman, I once made a prank call to an operator (remember them?) in Montana, to say it was the next year here (NJ/NY) and still the olde year there! (I was a teen.)
	11:26am Mike W: yeah, all these war-criminal presidents have utterly failed to bring America First into the new year — ever! not once! off with their heads!
	♥ 11:27am Handy Haversack: If there were resources to extract, I'm sure we'd invade time, too.
	11:28am kpx: wasn't quite sure if I had to pluralize the ohm symbol?. right or wrong, it was done.
	11:28am Carmichael: Ha ha, that's better than the 1st. My personal new year's eve is the 29th, which marks 20 years of government service and a step closer to retirement.
	11:29am Listener Gregory: @kpx, think you were right, but need to carefully consider the apostrophe.
	11:30am The Butterman: TDK! You coulda made millions with that shtick.
	11:31am The Butterman: Lonnie! I’m feelin it!
	11:33am still b/p: Was looking last night at Holley profile from a couple years ago when he was Bandcamp artist of the week. daily.bandcamp.com...
	11:34am kpx: @L Gregory: Thx
	11:36am JP From KC: Greetings, all! Nice to be tuning in live for a change.
	♥ 11:37am Trouble: welcome aboard@jp!
	11:37am TDK60: Oh, did someone misuse an apostrophe above? Oh my! 2020, ya know.
	11:39am YETI BOB: @kpx: That's the Om symbol, the Ohm symbol is Ω
	♥ 11:40am Ken From Hyde Park: I am interested in procuring a quantity of celebratory fireworks for January 20.
	♥ 11:40am Handy Haversack: <sparks>And I've got angstrom my pants!</sparks>
	11:41am still b/p: Either way, Yeti Bob, there's no place like it for the holidays.
	11:42am Carmichael: Skeletal umbilical.
	11:43am YETI BOB: ångström (I love Unicode)
	♥ 11:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Om would be preferable, right? Less resistance.
	11:44am kpx: May the apostles of apostrophes send their knowledge upon thee.
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: The matter is charged, Ken.
	11:45am Dances with Moomins: More Om, less Ohms.... you can resist the resistance!
	11:46am Listener Gregory: I mistakenly used to chant "Ohm." My guru was shocked.
	11:46am TDK60: Hoo.
	♥ 11:46am Trouble: you do realize this is dangerous dad joke territory you all are dipping into?
	11:47am YETI BOB: I know, I just can't resist
	♥ 11:47am Handy Haversack: I'm going to go make lunch and will likely be away from the keyboard -- but always listening, Trouble. Thanks for all! So glad to have you back at the left-handed mice controls! Happiest of New Year wishes to you. And to all the Troubled. May the days ahead be full of Trouble and much less troubled.
	11:48am kpx: @Yeti Bob: I got the right symbol, just the wrong word. that was the word my speech to text provided.
	♥ 11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe we should dial it back. The more resistance we add, the more things will be heating up.
	11:49am northguineahills: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:49am Trouble: thanks for all your good vibes @handy! big ups to everyone who listens and supports independent radio!
	11:50am Jeffrey Davison: Belated greetings, Trouble and all! I was listening while cooking. Thanks for all the great music...
	11:50am YETI BOB: @kpx: yeah, that's a nice Om emoji (omoji?)
	11:51am TDK60: Gracias for Sounds, Trouble. Happy Feast of the Calendar & Diary Industry Success.
	11:52am Peter: Happy new year Trouble, thanks for the tunes 🍻
	♥ 11:52am Trouble: bonjour@jeffrey! sounds delicious!
	♥ 11:53am Trouble: happy happy peeps! i am so fortunate to be here with your every thursday. Cheers to the future!!
	11:54am YETI BOB: Look to the future now It's only just begun
	11:54am prudy: Happy New Year all...Trouble, thanks for helping us get through this painful year along with the skeleton crew at WFMU...cheers..
	11:55am ig: listened this morning when waiting for ASP and was so delighted. will def. be listening again <3
	11:55am sphere: take care folks. face forward to the future. :)
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: thanks and welcome aboard@ig!
	11:56am kpx: @Yeti Bob: Omohmji .
	11:57am ratso: nice vibes today, trouble. Thanks for helping wrap up this year and put a bow on it.
	11:57am egould310: Junior Murvin with a voice as hiiiigh as a rooftop.
	11:57am Andres: Wonderful show today, Trouble! Thank you! All the best to all you peoples!
	11:57am northguineahills: ok, my car is missing, from where I parked it. It's a standard transmission, so, I don't know why someone would break in and take it... (2020 did it again!)
	11:57am still b/p: Towed maybe, ngh?
	♥ 11:58am Irene Trudel: Happy New Year, Trouble! Thanks for all the great music in 2020, the year's one saving grace.
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	11:58am Mark Williams: @Trouble - check out "Bingo Kid" sometime. Another instrumental version of Police & Thieves, but with this really lovely guitar solo over the top.
	11:58am northguineahills: The hotel doesn't tow, unless, I accidentally parked in a handi spot, as I got a call about an interview as parked two days ago, I may have been distracted....
	♥ 11:59am Jason from Houston: Love y'all. Stay safe and sweet.
	♥ 11:59am alanr: Applause!
	11:59am still b/p: I called health.gov to straighten something out and there was NO wait/hold time! The 2020 to 2021 tide is turning already!
	♥ 11:59am Andrea: thank you!!!!! better year to all.
	12:00pm still b/p: Beautiful show. Thank you.
	♥ 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Hope your car turns up, ngh.
	12:00pm kpx: @NGH: Reprocess ?
	12:00pm Listener Gregory: Thanks for a relaxing show, Trouble. Just like 2020!

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